Democratic Political strategist and former Pete Buttigieg 2020 campaign advisor Lis Smith trashed former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during a Monday interview with MSNBC host Nicolle. Were just not looking for them. And as you saw on Fox News Sunday, as I went to bed last night, [his clip] has 8 million views. (For the record, I can totally envision him sitting on the floor singing Kumbaya just not for me. Both Miller and Smith come off as quasi-heros, semi-savants, pseudo-sociologists. Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. Eliot Spitzer]. Spitzer leaves the apatment of Lis Smith at 5:44 a.m. on Dec. 19. None of those races were particularly easy. Why that works with Pete, whatever you want to call it the earnest side of him, this nerdy side of him, the wonky side of him was because it was authentically Pete. 8,310 Followers, 856 Following, 219 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Lis Smith (@lis__smith) [26][27][28] Philip Elliott of Time praised its transparency and wrote that it "may just rewrite the template for what a political memoir can be. And they all lack humility. [2] In 2014, she became a communication consultant for Adriano Espaillat's congressional campaign. Smith, standing behind Buttigieg as he campaigns at various events in New York this April. Smith tried to outfox The Post by going to the Daily News as a pre-emptive strike in an effort to get a more favorable story planted about her relationship with Spitzer. The savvy strategist then had to figure out how to break the news to de Blasio and his camp, as their soon-to-be City Hall press secretary was now at the center of her own juicy tabloid scandal. Its that everyday when I go into work to try and get these people elected its because it will impact lives. But Joe Biden is president today, and Kamala Harris is his vice president. [The vice presidency] is probably the toughest, most thankless job in Washington D.C. [10], In 2016, she was the spokesperson for Marisol Alcantara's successful New York State Senate campaign. The book was praised for its insight into the personal and political fortunes of politicians she advised. No. What I realized from my time working in politics is how much mystery there still is around this industry. But I compartmentalized this knowledge like other things in my life. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. Andrew Cuomo's. She is a talented communicator. He has a clear social consciousness to him that you dont see in a lot of professional athletes. But there may be no political couple odder than that of Buttigieg and Smith. Because Pete is so Midwestern nice, I think it was helpful for him to have someone who could help kick him into another gear, and sort of push him to have the more aggressive instinct you need to break through in a presidential race. Eliot Spitzer's girlfriend Lis Smith, 31, has not been asked to take up a position in New York mayor Bill de Blasio's new City Hall team in the wake of her affair with the disgraced former governor. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. The most important thing is theres no one way to be a Democrat no matter what any of these lefty groups in Washington say, and we cannot expect candidates in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Ohio and Arizona and North Carolina to check off every box on the progressive party purity test. Regular voters and the media were primed for it.. So I wanted to write a book to tell people, Hey, if you want to know what politics is like the ins and outs, the good, bad, and the ugly this is a book for you.. Is it your relationship with reporters and cable bookers? We needed to be the antidote to him. Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts, says Weaver. She puts the word fuck through every part of speech the word can be bent into: noun, pronoun, gerund, verb, term of endearment, sobriquet, epithet, honorific. I want Democrats to read this book. ", Before they get in the car, I ask Buttigieg if Smith is being helpful in his campaign. Smith has made a name for herself in recent months by working with a new crop of candidates in the middle of the country, including Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (center). But another thing is that Im not someone whos just worked in New York. Mistakes Ive made in my professional life. 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And if people like me dont get involved, then Im scared about the future of our country. Smith had moved to New York in 2013 to work for Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor who had stepped down in a prostitution scandal. [19], In 2021, Smith worked closely with then-governor Andrew Cuomo, and advised him on how to respond to the sexual harassment allegations against him. Why do I fucking love John McCain? Sign up for our newsletter. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. John Edwards comes to mind. He wrote a paper praising Bernie Sanders at Harvard? Buttigieg recently started getting savaged online when it surfaced that he had told an audience in 2015 that all lives matter, and as it happened, he was due to speak at Al Sharptons annual National Action Network convention. They know who they are and will not let consultants, pundits, whoever, change them. Miller is darkly. Oftentimes its not going to be found in Washington, D.C. Wren: Youve worked in a lot of red states South Dakota, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio. This is what day two looks like. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. With Bill de Blasio, that was a different situation. We just had the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I worked in politics nine years before I ever moved to New York. Pete has no battle scars. On a cornier side, I think because he is such a good person, he made a lot of us better people throughout, because politics can be sort of a nasty business. Smith: Im not going to touch that with a 10-foot pole. Wren: Based on how you characterized the vice presidency, would you ever counsel the transportation secretary, regardless of what year it is, against taking the vice presidency? `Jesus, you always keep it interesting.'. They have grown to like and trust each other. It was in 2013, the time when Smith was working for the de Blasio campaign, that she began dating Eliot Spitzer. It will hopefully make the cost of prescription drugs go down, or cut the price of insulin. [17] She has been included in Fortune's 40 Under 40 in Government and Politics,[18] and Crain's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York. While working for the Obama campaign she met David Axelrod, whom Smith considers a mentor. | Some are even in the White House, like Deputy Press Secretary Chris Meagher, who briefed the press not too long ago. Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. The candidate and the campaign manager dutifully board the aircraft, and just when it seems the door is about to close, as they start looking around nervously, in comes Smith, sunglasses and coat still on, laptop and cords dangling from her arms, phone pressed against her ear. Smith ended up dropping most of her other clients, politicians and nonprofits alike. Smith is 31; a Dartmouth graduate who apparently has a thing for bad boys. Does something like Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome exist? Hes someone who is very special to me, and I hope hes always a part of my life. By. But its not just about the 18-year-old girl. Smith is a fierce New York City-based Democratic operative who helped engineer the plan to get Buttigieg in front of not just national political reporters, but anybody with a camera or microphone. The scandal would serve as a distraction for both Smith and mayor-elect de Blasio but the political crisis communications guru thought she could ride out the storm. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) "They're both consenting adults and can do what they want," said a former Spitzer. And its something that forever Ill be thankful to him for. How consequential was that looking back? There may be nobody more central to Mayor Pete's media successbesides the candidate himself, and arguably his social-media-savvy husband, Chasten Buttigiegthan Smith, who serves as a. In that moment, in retrospect, it seems like Harris couldve ended Buttigiegs campaign. What do I get if I pay for your consulting services? Everyone thought I was crazy. You couldnt have pulled off that strategy with a Bill de Blasio. On Sunday, Bill de Blasio put out a statement in a New York Post story in his own name defending himself against the portrait you paint of him in your book as obsessively paranoid. If you were working for him, and a book like yours came out authored by someone else, how would you have advised him to address the situation? I want political people to read this book, because I think its fun. She had an "itch," the political consultant writes in her. But I love politics because it touches everything in our lives. I think now more than ever, people need to understand how the media works. Lis Smith entered politics after watching The War Room, the 1992 documentary about Bill Clinton's successful bid for the presidency. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. I want people to know what its like behind the scenes. Wren: Youre often credited with vaulting Pete from the mayor of Indianas fourth-largest city to a member of Bidens cabinet. All Rights Reserved. Win or lose, she's turned an unknown into a serious . To avoid stakeouts during the media frenzy that followed, Smith said she temporarily stayed with a friend from her college days at Dartmouthwho resided on the Upper West Side. What makes him such a magnet for criticism on both the left and the right? A text arrives from John Weaver, a top adviser to former Ohio Governor John Kasich. Lets just blow it out. Wren: He rehabilitated you and taught you to love the political process again. There is nothing too big for her. And so my advice would just be, get out there more, especially with Kamala, go out there more. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio. [5] In 2009, she became press secretary for Terry McAuliffe and Jon Corzine's gubernatorial races before moving on to becoming the communications director for Ted Strickland's 2010 Ohio governor's race. | Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images. It went on like this, just cursing up a blue streak for like two minutes., The aides mistake, Smith recalls, had to do with email: He failed to BCC reporters on a news release he blasted out. Yeah. [19], In 2020, Smith was one of six political experts named as fellows by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. Still, she said, I wasnt exactly a PR neophyte. Bill de Blasio, too. She advised a couple of governors still left in office, and started taking on more nonprofit clients. And especially on far-leftist DSA Twitter, Im basically just depicted as a mix between Lady Macbeth and Rasputin in a wig, that Im like some soulless political operatives. The late Lisa Marie Presley is a grandmother. 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